Research Assistant (all genders) as member of the Data-Storage Group Ref. No.: 25.74-1910

Research Assistant (all genders) as member of the Data-Storage Group

GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt operates one of the leading particle accelerators for science. In the next few years, the new FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), one of the world’s largest research projects, will be built in international cooperation. GSI and FAIR offer the opportunity to work in this exciting international environment as part of a team of employees committed to ensuring the conduction of world-class science.

We are looking for the following person for the IT department as soon as possible:

Research Assistant (all genders) as member of the Data-Storage Group

Posting ID: 25.74-1910

• Operation, monitoring and further development of high-performance storage solutions for HPC environments based on Lustre and/or Ceph
• Support of data archiving with IBM Storage Protect (TSM) including automation, data integrity and performance optimization
• Operation and monitoring of the Infiniband network infrastructure as a central component of the HPC backbone
• Development, maintenance and operation of the monitoring infrastructure with Prometheus, Grafana and InfluxDB
• Creation of dashboards and alerting systems for monitoring storage and network systems
• Analysis of system key figures for early detection of bottlenecks and error states.
• General tasks in Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux), including automation with Ansible, package management, system updates and error analysis
• Publish open-source software solutions and research contributions on relevant scientific repositories.

Your profile

• Successfully completed studies (Master, Diploma) in computer science, physics or a comparable course of study
• Experience in the operation and administration of distributed file systems such as Lustre and/or Ceph
• Knowledge of data archiving and backup systems, ideally IBM Storge Protect (TSM).
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and InfluxDB and a good understanding of performance metrics in storage and network systems
• Good knowledge of Linux system administration (preferably RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux)
• Basic knowledge of Infiniband networking and hands-on experience in troubleshooting and documentation
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible or CHEF and basic knowledge of scripting (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Independent and structured way of working and ability to work in a team in the HPC environment
• Good written and spoken German and English.

The role combines strong software engineering expertise with scientific computing, offering the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to research infrastructure while working with cutting-edge technologies.

Your working style is structured and independent. The use of documentation tools during your work is an efficient support for you. You have strong communication skills, a confident manner, as well as a high level of methodological and social competence, you are ready to acquire missing knowledge independently. The ability to work in a team across groups and a solution-oriented working style are required.

We offer

After a comprehensive induction, you can expect a varied and challenging job in an experienced project team, creative design and development opportunities in a research institution with an international perspective; time for the (further) development of own open-source products; participation in scientific conferences and opportunities for further qualification.

The position is initially limited to 2 years. The salary is based on the collective agreement TVöD (Bund) applicable at GSI. Home office is partly possible by mutual agreement.

GSI promotes the professional development of women and welcomes women to feel particularly addressed by the advertisement.

Severely handicapped persons will be given preference in case of equal qualification.

If you consider the described field of activity as a personal challenge and are interested in working in an extraordinary international, strongly technical environment, please send your complete application documents, including your salary requirements and stating your earliest possible starting date, until 19.08.2025 at the latest, quoting the reference number (25.74-1910) via the online portal on our job site:

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